7 Golden Baby-Sleeping Tips Moms Must Know

Newborn babies do not sleep through the night in their first six months. Or they sleep much of the time but in very short segments. As they grow, the number of day-sleeping hours decreases, still they can sleep through the night. Here are some tips that will help you get your baby sleep through the night.

1. Don’t rock or breastfeed the baby to help them to sleep.

When the
baby shows that he or she wants to sleep their moms usually rock or breastfeed him/her.
It is a good thing though for your baby to sleep, but this becomes a ritual the
babies are used to before bed time. In doing so, the baby can’t sleep unless he
or she is in your arms. Make sure that your baby doesn’t sleep while you are
holding them. If the baby awakens during their sleep, they can’t fall back
asleep until you hold him or her again.

Rocking or
breastfeeding your baby before they sleep will make them feel insecure when you
are separated. Here are a few tips that will certainly help you get your infant
to sleep.

Put
your baby into bed when they are drowsy, not when they are sleeping.

Don’t
stimulate your baby by doing activities near bedtime.

Give
your baby a bath or read him or her stories form bedtime storybooks. This is an
effective way to get them sleep.

When
the baby awakens and starts crying, wait a few minutes, then try to pat and
sooth him or her.

2. Be sure it is completely dark for the baby to sleep.

When the
baby is exposed to too much light, he or she can’t sleep. Complete darkness
helps the infant’s brain to produce the melatonin, the necessary hormone for
sleeping. It is better to expose him or her to the brightness of the day and
darkness of the night.

Install dimmers on the lights of baby’s room. When the bedtime is close,
less than an hour, try to reduce the amount of light in the baby’s room.

Don’t turn the lights on when the baby awakens at night. Try to pat on him till he falls back to
sleep. If the light is on, it informs the brain that it’s not sleep time.

Install
room window blinds. Some babies are not comfortable with the morning
sunlight. Room-darkening shades and window blinds show great help in this kind
of situation.

3. Don’t change the diaper.

Changing
your baby’s diapers when they are sleeping will certainly awakens them up. But
if you relax the diaper’s rule, it becomes easy for you to sniff or
check whether he or she spoiled the diaper or not. Don’t change the diaper
unless there is poop. Use wipes to wipe the baby’s wee-wee. Use warm
wipes that have been warmed in a wipe warmer.

4. White noise as the best method.

White
noise may aid the baby to sleep. If your baby falls asleep while in noisy places in town, be sure that
he or she will sleep at white noise at home. This is an effective way to make
your baby sleep soundly. Videos on YouTube about baby white noise sleep sound
make a great number of views (some videos reach the number of 33 million
views).

Use one of the videos on YouTube to help your baby to get to sleep. It’s a useful manner as the number of views demonstrates. I myself used it with my daughter Sara when she was a baby. It really works.

5. Keep their sleeping spot warm.

When you get your baby from his or
her bed to feed them, make sure his or her place is always warm. Some
moms put a warm bottle in their cribs, so when they put the baby back in their
crib or bassinet the place has the body’s temperature.

6. Let your baby cry.

If your
baby is full and the diaper is clean, don’t hold your baby when they cry in
sleeping time. Some experts say that you should let the infant cry until
they get themselves to sleep. Babies wake up five or six times a night
naturally. You should let them learn how to self-sooth and how to get back to
sleep on their own is useful for both of you.

7. Your baby should sleep in a separate bed.

Avoid
co-sleeping.
Sleeping with your baby in the same bed is not a good thing to do. They always
use your boobs as a pacifier, which makes them wake up like every 30 minutes
and cry to get breastfeed to go back to sleep. Let them sleep in their own
cribs or bassinets.